5161 results for '"Chambers, R. W.'

"Essential for all poetry collections. . . . Translator Joseph Cadora renders a beautiful new edition complete with commentary on each poem, based on Rilke's letters, numerous biographies, and...

“A must-have series for middle-grade readers.” —BooklistImagine if Sherlock Holmes was an eleven-year-old girl!When Friday Barnes, girl genius, solves a bank robbery, she uses the reward money to...

Winner of the 1983 Fredrick Jackson Turner Award from the Organization of American Historians.American women have made great strides in the last century to win personal autonomy, sexual freedom,...

Learn all about the fascinating world of dinosaurs with #1 bestselling children's book author Roger Priddy's My Big Dinosaur Book.Which dinosaur has a very long neck? Which dinosaur has striped...

A heartwarming "tail" about adoption, diversity, and acceptance that's perfect for young readers! Told from the point of view of a puppy who is adopted by a cat, this gentle and reassuring tale is...

The Drop Edge of Yonder is an adventurous book that explores the truth and temptations of the American myth. Beginning in the savage wilds of Colorado in the waning days of the fur trade, the story...

Universal basic income. A 15-hour workweek. Open borders. Does it sound too good to be true? One of Europe's leading young thinkers shows how we can build an ideal world today."A more politically...

In Dispatches from Pluto, adventure writer Richard Grant takes on “the most American place on Earth”—the enigmatic, beautiful, often derided Mississippi Delta.Richard Grant and his girlfriend were...

If you long for more meaningful connections to other people... We've never needed this book more than we do right now. Most of us are involved with people all day long, every day, but rarely do we...

Researchers in Artificial Intelligence have discovered a great deal about reading while striving to teach computers to read. This information, however, has been of small benefit in our schools since...

Discusses our ability to feel emotions and to understand and accept those feelings, and compares subjective, objective, and diagnostic observation

TIME’S #1 FICTION TITLE OF THE YEAR • NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018 FINALIST for the MAN BOOKER PRIZE and the NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD LONGLISTED for the ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL An...

Robert Desjarlais's graceful ethnography explores the life histories of two Yolmo elders, focusing on how particular sensory orientations and modalities have contributed to the making and the telling...

Though she is teased about her silver trailer home, a little girl never loses sight of life’s true gifts in Rosemary Wells’s sensitive, ultimately uplifting story. Stella lives in a sparkling home...

Kids will spend hours poring over the oversized pages of this joyfully illustrated book that looks at a bustling town's activities in spring.It's springtime in this charming, busy town and there is a...

A firm grasp of Islamic fundamentalism has often eluded Western political observers, many of whom view it in relation to social and economic upheaval or explain it away as an irrational reaction to...

The fascinating personal story of one of the most celebrated talents in today’s music sceneThe star of the Metropolitan Opera's recent revival of Dvorak's Rusalka, soprano Renée Fleming brings a...

Describes the life within a Carthusian monastery, shares the observations of monks and nuns from the order, and discusses their organization and management

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Salt to the Sea and Between Shades of Gray comes a gripping, extraordinary portrait of love, silence, and secrets under a Spanish dictatorship.Madrid,...